This is an analysis of the poem To My Laundress that begins with:
Saponacea, wert thou not so fair
I'd curse thee for thy multitude of sins... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaabbacbdcbd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 100011111 1111110101 1101111101 0101000101 1001010111 011101111111 1111011101 1101110011 1111110111 10110011001 110100011110 1101111101 0001010011 10110001010
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 585
- Average number of words per stanza: 112
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, where, thy are repeated.
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